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Quilt Retreat Progress

After a weekend at quilt retreat, I'm exhausted, but I still spent some time yesterday unpacking my retreat projects and organizing my sewing priorities.

This shirt quilt was my main project of the weekend. I made 20 Nifty Thrifty blocks from Bonnie Hunters book Scraps and Shirttails. And then decided to make 18 nine patches for a floating nine patch border. I still need to assemble the border, I think they'll be floating in a solid turquoise Kona.

I also made these two stars from 8" squares. I'll add a 1.5" turquoise border then a 6" brown border to both so they are identical, then I'll make a double sided lap quilt with them.

And I made a couple of extra woven blocks for this quilt top. This was not my original plan for these woven blocks but I'm just so over this project I want it finished! Have you ever just decided you are no longer interested in spending more time on something and thrown the blocks together into a compromise quilt, rather than let it become a UFO?

I have made my dogs some dog jackets lately and was asked for the pattern, since all dogs are different sizes that is difficult to do, but I am going to do a tutorial showing how I did it.

This is the pattern for my medium sized dog Henry the Cockapoo, I have laid it on my cutting mat folded in half and lined up with the inch marks so that you can copy the pattern onto a grid if you would like to try this:

And this is the pattern for my small Maltipoo Ebony again it is folded in half and lined up on the inch grid so you can copy it if you would like to:

Once you have created a paper pattern you can lay it over your dog to determine if you need to enlarge the pattern or decrease the size to suit your own dog.
Then you need a piece of fabric and some batting. Any scrappy patchwork or UFO you no longer want will do fine for this or you can take the time to create a patchwork design that suits your dogs personality. Spray baste the top to the battingLay the pattern on top and cut out the p…